Paperback. In this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds. This essay demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. It argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Engineering and the Mind's Eye (Paperback)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd, Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 026256078X
ISBN 13: 9780262560788
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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In this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds.

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Eugene Ferguson is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Delaware.

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